Haruki Murakami

Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

Quotes



Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
I sometimes think that people�s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what�s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays